Welcome to the Resource Library

This Resource Library is a collection of books, tapes, and DVDs, as well as instantly downloadable items, such as newsletters and tip sheets. You will find a wide variety of topics related to foster care, kinship caregiving, adoption, and more.

Wisconsin families and professionals are welcome to check out physical materials from our library for free (electronic items are available to all for free and on demand). The requested materials will be shipped to you with a postage-paid return envelope. You can help us serve more people by sending along a check for the amount of postage, if possible. You may check out four (4) items at a time and keep them for three (3) weeks.

Tables of Contents

To help you navigate our rich library of free downloadable resources, we have created some table of contents documents that we hope you find helpful.

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Rebecca’s Journey Home

The baby’s name is Le Tai Hong, but she would now be called Rebecca in English and Rivka in Hebrew. “”She’ll be Vietnamese and American and Jewish!””, Jacob declares. The […]

Understand and Care

Empathy – a sincere, personal understanding of how another person feels – is essential to healthy relationships. This book builds empathy is children. In child-friendly words and supporting illustrations, it […]

Be Polite and Kind

When children are courteous, respectful and kind, other people enjoy beging around them. Politeness invites reciprocal behavior and helps people get along. In simple words and appealing illustrations, this book […]

Share and Take Turns

This book is an ideal introduction to sharing. In simple words and engaging illustrations, it presents sharing as a positive choice, then describes four ways to share. It points out […]

MAMA

Mama: A true story in which a baby hippo loses his mama during a tsunami, but finds a new home and a new mama. All ages.

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

Joey Pigza can’t sit still. He can’t pay attention, he can’t follow the rules, and he can’t help it – especially when his meds aren’t working. Joey’s had problems ever […]

Jin Woo

David likes his family the way it has always been, just him and Mom and Dad. He never wanted to be a big brother. And he certainly didn’t want Jin […]

Parents Wanted

Andy Ffleck doesn’t have much of a family. His dad has been in jail since Andy was ten and his mother gave hin up to the state as “”too hard […]